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sxv··on GPT-6 Astra
create a life where your 'wealth' is decoupled from third party orgs.
sxv··on Shipmap.org
An orthographic projection (globe) would be helpful to see e.g. new arctic routes.
sxv··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
This doesn't work for me. I see it in the App Store but it says not available for my system and redirects me to the Tahoe update.

edit: worked after second attempt (via macappstores://apps.apple.com/app/macos-sequoia/id6596773750?mt=12 )

sxv··on Former Nintendo employees reveal what it took to launch the NES
As a retro/analog guy I was expecting to be in agreement with you, but after an image search I think I actually prefer the SNES. The SF looks like a tractor feed printer while the SNES probably looked fun and futuristic for its time.
sxv··on The Color of the Future: A history of blue
See also: a philosophical and lyrical take, "Bleuets" by Maggie Nelson (2019).
sxv··on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%
When tested against AIs such as DeepSeek V3, Qwen 3, and Phi-4, CatAttack increased the odds of incorrect answers by as much as 700%, depending on the model. And “even when CatAttack does not result in the reasoning model generating an incorrect answer, on average, our method successfully doubles the length of the response at least 16% of the times leading to significant slowdowns and increase in costs,” the team writes.

preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01781?et_rid=648436046&et_cid=568...

sxv··on “Streaming vs. Batch” Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I Think It's Confusing
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
sxv··on The True Size Of
it's australia engulfing europe for me.
sxv··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
I think it's the green checkmark and the green square that are confusing. Like why is there a check on the first green square and not the second one? Maybe it would be cleaner without any checkmark at all? Anyway, nice game, I shared it with my sister who also wants to solve more of them!
sxv··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Highly enjoyable (after I finally read the definitions of "neighbor" and "to the right/left")! Did you write a program that can automatically generate these?? I'll definitely try this again. Note, the emoji graphic in "share" might be buggy? I'm seeing one green checkmark, one green square, and four red squares..
sxv··on What happens if the NY Times tech staff strikes on election night?
| source: washingtonpost.com

nice try, guys

sxv··on Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined
Many see a value in "natural" objects that is absent in those engineered by man. There is a raw energy and story behind it. Would you be just as awe-struck by a magnificent waterfall built by engineers flowing atop beautiful factory-produced rocks as one created by geologic forces over millennia?
sxv··on Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits
Isn't 202TB (for comparison) way too small to contain every permutation of information? That filesize wouldn't even be able to store a film enthusiast's collection?
sxv··on I Received an AI Email
i.e. investment bankers in hoodies
sxv··on Tell HN: Google Broke "site:domain.com" Search
I'm having this problem too.
sxv··on A 1.5GB string
| 1.5GB string

Genomics data has entered the chat.

sxv··on Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
Impressive, but it seems to have hallucinated Lilly's location.
sxv··on Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
Understanding the Universe, an Introduction to Astronomy[0] -- a video lecture series by Alex Filippenko

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncSF2QwpCB9C...

sxv··on 60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down
first world problems..
sxv··on $570M worth of Binance’s BNB token stolen
You mean like the entire history of "civilization"?
sxv··on Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run
And he's in his 40s!
sxv··on Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
| basically 0% chance

lost credibility here

sxv··on Mille Bornes
Good point. Also stuff often comes in waves (as opposed to a random distribution over time) due to network effects, etc.
sxv··on Sleeping longer than 6.5 hours/day can help you lose weight: study
I've worked in tech since 2008 and only for 2 of those years have I had to be "on call" past 6pm. ymmv.
sxv··on Checkbox Olympics
13.533 on a mbp trackpad
sxv··on How I Started to See Trees as Smart
Good time to plug my favorite nature documentary ever, Attenborough's 6-episode 'The Private Life of Plants' (1995).
sxv··on Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]
In all seriousness, I think the freedom to tell (and receive) bigoted jokes as a youth was an integral part of my maturation.
sxv··on Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes
Also Couchsurfing in May 2020 (RIP) [0]

[0]https://www.inputmag.com/features/rise-and-ruin-of-couchsurf...

sxv··on Apple Mac Studio
You might want to have a look at https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
sxv··on Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
I enjoyed it fwiw.
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